Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-01-01


and there are often sixty care. Thes
are loaded with coal and lumber for thu
most part, but they carry all sorts o
merchandise. BY reference to IN article
/, in this issue of the HERALD, on the Por
OF Wilmington, will be seen the arriva
Of coal and lumber at that place for the
year; most of this comes to this city by
cars. This is only branch line traffic
but with extras, it will aggregate score
of trains moving daily by about dozen
engines total of nearly l50 cars.
For the movement east and north
there will be found to be total of al
many more trains, this including those
of the C. s. R'y. There are the cat.
lantic" or east bound express, the s'Pa
lciffc" or west bound ditto, the Cotton
local or "cannon.ball, and two regular
trans. continental freights each way--all
IS.P. Co.'S trains; then daily passen.
ger by the c. 3. line 10 Cotton and back,
two daily to San Diego, and return, by
the same line. and also their daily
freights. In busy times both lines run
extras of all sorts. Then there is the
eastern excursion business by extra
trains which bring in perhaps each
month during the winter perhaps half a
score of traius. The total movement of
trains at the new depot will aggregate
not far short Of fifty. The trans-conti-
mental express trains move q total of
about dozen cars each; the Cotton and
San Diego passenger trains move about
six cars of all sorts; the freights will
move each from twenty-five to sixty
cars. Most of the rans.continental
trains are ''double.headers. and many
Of them require one Of The engines to be
a "hog." as the railroad boys call the 80
and l00.ton machines.
The total movement of nearly fifty
trains daily causes a handling each day
Of an average of about 500 cars per day
at the depot Of the S. P. Co.
The gross tonnage and the kind Of
merchandise moved, as tabulated by the
head office of the s. P. 60. in San Fran.
cisco for this point. and kindly furnished
the HERALD through Mr.. Mosher, of the
uptown Office, will be found in another
portion of to.day's isaue.
TIE YEARS IMPROVEMENTS.
| Among the improvements of this past
year the bridge and carpenters depart.
ment built new depot at San Gabriel,
Puente, Orange, and Florence; the new
depot in this city was greatly enlarged,
and another is being built at Pomona.
A new ice house was built in this city,
and great new bridge at Floronce.
These are all in addition to the rebuild.
ing of the Soledad Canon bridges, aud
those over the two branches of the
Teiunga, and others washed out by the
foods of last winter.
Next year q large addition will be
made to The round house here, and two
new iron bridges will be put across the
river at this point.
The road master put in double track
sidings of some 600 feet each track at the
Powder House, similar siding at Puente
and Brookside, and another at Savan.
nah. El Monte is to have one which
will be begun in few days. The track
from this city to Spadra was reballasted
with plenty Of gravel from the Tejunga
wash, and large part of the road from
here to Cotton was relayed with steel
rails. Some twenty-five miles were so
treated, and there is steel for thirty
miles on its way here, which will all be
laid down between here and Cotton.
The traffic on that part Of the line is
very heavy, as will appea. if one adds up
the trains as given above. The sum is
nearly twenty trains . day, or almost
one for each hour in the twenty-fO
The steel laid there is 80 pound rails.
Then there is the rebuilding Of the
road up the Soledad Canon last spring,
which was great undertaking, and the
construction of the coast line from New
hall which is now some Is miles down
towards Ventura where it will reach
by the close of the spring.
THE FUTURE.
The business OF this point in railroad
matters increased last year at least 100
per cent. over that of the year before.
This has created desire on the part of
the great A. T. & s. +. Go. to get con.
nection with Los Angeles, and enter the
field as q powerful competitor of the
Pioneerfoad. This system has recently
secured line from ST. Louis to Chicago,
and It'll being pushed with great energy
in the regions near this city, SO as to get
an independent entrance to this place.
The A., T. l. 8. F. people have done
business for year past over the lines of
the C, s. and those OF the 8. P. under o
lease contract. The G. s. property is
practically owned by the Atchison sys.
| tenn. and the managers Of this now de.
sire to be independent of the s. p. To
this end line is now being built from
San Bernardino through the San Gabriel
valley, Readers of the HERALD are
we'll informed concerning this movement.
The grading is done some nine miles out
of San Bernardino by way of Ontario
towards Pomona. By the first of March
q whole line via Mud Springs, Covina or
Citrus. Duarte and Pasadena will be
graded to the new depot grounds re-
Gently secured by this company in the
Bigelow place at the foot of First street
on the river. The associates OF the
same people have another line well under
way from San Bernardino via Riverside,
Arlington, the Santa Ana Caiion, Ana.
helm and the Santa Ana Valley, over the
Laguna ranch, to the same terminal
point. A line is also under way TO carry
this connection to tide water at the new
harbor at La Ballona. Nor are these
| enterprises whose inception is thus no.
ticed, all the projects of the great sy stem
TO be known as the Chicago and Califor.
MIA Railway. There are other feeders
for the trunk in contemplation. From
Anaheim q branch is to be run to San
Diego. One may be built to Whining
ton by way OF Long Beach. And there
are still others less clearly detiLed 50 far
as any public information is concerned.
This new rival has awakened the old
pioneer corporation to new activity so
as to preserve their interests in this
section. They will no doubt go in vig-
orously with the Coast line until it
reaches Santa Barbara. Little is known
as vet of definite plans on the part Of
the S. P. But it is very likely they will
make o very strenuous effort to tap all
the points of this great valley with
feeders to the trunk line. One will 60
to San Diego, via Santa Ana, and one
is spoken Of to run from Shoibs Station
i l. NJ In Evnr,